According to a news release, the Drug Enforcement Administration assisted Richmond County Sheriff’s Office in the two long-term investigations. Police said the Harrisburg operation has been linked to sales across the county while the south Richmond County methamphetamine sales have spread to Burke and Jefferson counties.

Police recovered stolen property, including tractors, trailers and vehicles during the investigation into the meth operation.

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Wanna bet the woman tying up a computer that had already timed out its session, feeding a baby crackers from a south side library computer desk, dropping crumbs all over the keyboard and the mouse pad, with the same unusual last name as one of these fellows, is related? I'm not a betting person, but it would be a temptation.

I sure would like to have a map of the meth lab addresses. Can you even resell or rent these houses? How can they be cleaned up well enough? I found out about a house that used to be a meth lab and it has been rented out at least once already. Can they be rendered safe?

supposed to be where all the hipsters and young professionals are supposed to be lining up to move to......I swear I read this on the comment section a few weeks ago. Trying to remember who posted the comment.....huuuuum.....I wonder who.......

AutumnLeaves, yes, they can be cleaned, but it costs a lot of $$$$. Most landlords don't, they just let it sit and air out. Once the smell is gone, they rent it back out.

It has to be disclosed to a seller, but not to a renter.

It's just as if you had a fire in your house. You would have to disclose that to a seller, but not to a renter, once you fixed it.

Most of them go to motels, they don't like to do it in their houses, too easy to find them there. And they don't like to blow their houses up, and if they have kids, they'll lose their kids if they do it in the house.
They also like to make it out in the woods, or where nobody is around, where nobody can smell it.

We did a couple of stories a few years ago on cleaning up meth labs. Seems the price tag of a cleanup at the time was about $1,500 to $3,000 depending on the house. But one cleanup professional said he charges $10 a square foot.

The DEA has a site that includes the addresses of drug houses, but I don't think it's a complete list:

As a retired Realtor and the member of a large local real estate family, I have to disagree with you Corgi about the notification process. There is no law on the books to my knowledge that says a buyer has to be informed about ANYTHING on a property they are buying except what is covered in the Seller's Disclosure form. None of those questions involve fire or meth lab or many of the things you would think should be disclosed. For an example, I sold a house once where a murder had occurred. Under GA law, I did not have to disclose that to the Buyer, nor did the Seller. I thought the rules were wrong, so I did disclose the information, which was a slight violation of my licensing, since I represented the Seller, but I just couldn't see it as being fair to the Buyer. I would love to hear a current Realtor chime in on this, but as recently as two years ago, these were the rules.